3.12.2012

New York University School of LawGreenberg Lounge at Vanderbilt Hall40 Washington Square South, NYC

The program will commence at 2:30 pm,and will be followed by light refreshments.

Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, a longtime Fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanitiesat NYU, was widely known and respected as a philosopher, psychoanalyst, biographer,and scholar. She authored over a dozen books, including seminal biographies ofHannah Arendt and Anna Freud; Why Arendt Matters; The Anatomy of Prejudices;Subject to Biography: Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and Writing Womens' Lives;Where Do We Fall When We Fall in Love?; and most recently, Childism:Confronting Prejudice Against Children (Yale Univ. Press, 2012). Formerly onthe faculty of the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training andResearch, she was a member of the Toronto Psychoanalytic Society and aco-founder of Caversham Productions, a company that creates psychoanalyticeducational materials. Elisabeth wrote about current events and contemporarypolitical issues on her blog, Who's Afraid of Social Democracy?, and hadrecently been named General Editor of The Collected Writings of D.W. Winnicott,a project that had fully engaged her ever-fierce intellect. On November 18, 2011,she gave a lunch-talk at the Institute that traced her intellectual trajectoryfrom The Anatomy of Prejudices to Childism, through to the writings of Winnicott(this talk appears as her last blog post, under the title "Creative Aggression").Elisabeth's passion and commitment--as a thinker, as a writer,as a friend--are deeply missed.

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